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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Corn Salad with Tomatoes and Feta Cheese

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This lovely mix of ingredients captures the colors and flavors of summer in a bowl. The salad, packed with fresh vegetables that offer texture and flavor, is topped with a combination of feta cheese and basil that manages to keep a potentially boring mix of ingredients interesting. The brightness of the salad adds glorious color to a picnic table and its slight tang works really well with barbecued meat or chicken. The recipe was originally developed developed by Priscilla Yee for a Taste of Home competition. Her recipe is a keeper and I suspect your family will enjoy it as much as mine did. While I prefer the salad chilled, it can be served at room temperature and that makes it ideal for family outings. Our outing today took us to a local dam and fish hatchery where the little guys had their first "gone fishin" experience. It was a treasure of a day, matched by food that was nearly as good as the memories that were made. While there is no recipe for the memories, there is one for the salad. Here it is.

Directions:1) To make dressing, whisk lime juice, salt, pepper sauce and 4 teaspoons oil together in a small bowl. Set aside.
2) Using a large skillet, saute corn in reserved 1 teaspoon oil until tender. Transfer corn to a salad bowl.
3) Add tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and basil to sauteed corn. Drizzle with dressing and toss to coat. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving or refrigerate until chilled. until tender. Transfer to a salad bowl; add the tomatoes, cucumber, onion and basil. Drizzle with dressing and toss to coat. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving or refrigerate until chilled. Sprinkle with cheese just before serving. Yield: 4 servings.

Your little fella looks adorable. Your corn salad looks pretty good, too! I think I sometimes forget that in the summer, the simpler the better, especially when it comes to my favorite summer vegetable. I'm having a great giveaway this week---come by and enter!

this looks simple and delicious and a wonderful way to use up all those grape tomatoes my plants are beginning to pump out! Have a wonderful day Mary...and as always, thanks for the link love on pasta post!!

I will be bringing extra corn home from the Farmer's Market to ensure I do this! Those Gone Fishin' memories - last forever. My Dad always spoke about fishing in Brooklyn with his Uncle Billy in the 1930's!

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